I’m not a vegetarian and this is still awful to watch. Yes this is very cool robotics work but then they’re using robots to slaughter living creatures. The only way to get even more removed from the morally questionable act of slaughtering animals for food is to have them be grown and killed by robots as well. Maybe they do that too…

There’s so much to go over though. I’d constantly worry I’d missed something, and the failure mode is awful. Rather than people not being able to comment on a blog, or make an online purchase, you could give lots of people food poisoning.

Of course, the cleaning may be (at least partly) automated too… that could be another cool video!

Glad I’m not the only one that found the last bit both super cool and more than a little disconcerting. Something about the speed at which it moves, the precision and the nearly-human-like motions planted it firmly in the uncanny valley. Plus the jigsaw probably didn’t help :P